Cuba built covert network inside America through spies, activists and universities, State Dept alleges
Cuba spent decades waging a covert campaign to infiltrate the United States through espionage and ideological influence, according to a new State Department report that calls Havana the "capital of...
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Cuba spent decades waging a covert campaign to infiltrate the United States through espionage and ideological influence, according to a new State Department report that calls Havana the "capital of 21st century communism." Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the report is intended to expose what he described as Havana's decades-long campaign against the United States. "For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States," Rubio wrote on X. "The State Department is exposing the full history of Cuban espionage and subversion in our country. The American people deserve to know." TRUMP EXPANDS CUBA SANCTIONS BEYOND US COMPANIES IN MAJOR CRACKDOWN ON FOREIGN ENABLERS Cuba's foreign minister , Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, dismissed the report as political propaganda. In a statement posted on X, Rodríguez called it the State Department's "latest fallacy" about Cuba and accused the Trump administration of manufacturing a pretext to continue what he described as Washington's "cruel and criminal economic war" against the island. Without naming Rubio, he accused "that U.S. politician from South Florida" of concocting a "macabre plan" that advances only the interests "of those who have always paid him." The 100-page report argues that Cuba's campaign reached far beyond traditional espionage. It alleges that Havana cultivated American activists, recruited spies, supported revolutionary movements and built relationships with universities and advocacy groups as part of a long-term effort to undermine U.S. interests and spread communist ideology. "For nearly seven decades, the Cuban regime has waged a sustained campaign of subversion against the United States," the report says. It alleges Cuban intelligence infiltrated "the top levels of the State Department, the National Security Council , and the Pentagon," while also helping shape generations of left-wing political movements. INSIDE CUBA’S FOREIGN INFL…